Panóptico de Actualidad Gráfica y Visual
Name: Diode Designer: Natasha Lucas Foundry: MuirMcNeil Release Date: September 2020 Back Story: Designer Natasha Lucas first began a series of visual experiments examining the interdependence of positive and negative spaces in typographic forms back in 2018 with her Bisect type system. Bisect was part of a larger coordinated visual system promoting a series of Harold Pinter’s memory plays, which draw upon memories...
Any election year is accompanied by the inevitable onslaught of political advertising—find it on social media, on billboards and bumpers, flying from flagpoles, and dotting your neighbors’ yard. But this year, the barrage feels especially inescapable, not least because art galleries, usually a reliable visual refuge, are closed due to the pandemic. As opposed to the divisiveness of political messaging,...
“We’ve had enough!” “The revolution is female!” “Fuck PiS!” These are some of the chants resounding through the streets and squares of Poland right now. Tens of thousands of protestors have been turning out every day since October 22, 2020, when a ruling by the Constitutional Court determined that abortions for fetal abnormalities violate the Constitution—a decision the ruling, right-wing...
Chronology is so ubiquitous that it seems almost natural. Human beings age and die, which means we experience linear duration in a deeply personal way. But this isn’t the only way we relate to time. Seasons, phases of the moon, and even recurring fashion trends are all cyclical. With linear time, the past is gone, the present is here, and...
Eda Levenson and Geneva White do not run a charity. They do not run an after-school program, or a mentorship curriculum (the latter of which often feeds what Levenson calls a “paternalistic nature” among older, usually white people). They do not put Black and brown bodies in seats for the sake of putting Black and brown in bodies in seats,...
Name: Maxi Designer: Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb, and Andree Paat Foundry: Dinamo Release Date: September 2020 Back Story: Maxi was one of the two typefaces launched in September this year to herald the arrival of the snazzy new Dinamo website (the other being grotesque font Diatype). The new site is a delicious melange of strange post-internet 3D shapes and animations, emojis,...
This is the fifth in our series Under The Covers, in which we shine a spotlight on a significant album with a seminal design approach to match. We kicked off the series with Kraftwerk’s iconic, mysterious Autobahn motorway graphics, and last time looked at Jean-Paul Goude and Grace Jones’ collaboration on Island Life. A great deal has been made of the...
Busy lives can leave us with little time to trial and adopt the kinds of major lifestyle changes necessary to…...
Architectural notation, the precise language by which windows and doors become lines and arcs, typically has little use outside of…...
K-pop encompasses a lot more than just the common label of popular music from South Korea. It’s an entire industry,…...
Around the same time every year, half-way through the Spring semester, just as the pull of Summer begins, my students…...
For Rush Jackson, the young artist and designer behind graphic design studio Onyx Self-Imaging Labs, design’s value lies in its…...
